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 Halloween Candy Peanut Butter Heath Bark 

Irresistible Halloween Candy Bark is quick and easy to make… A good thing 'cause you just can't beat this kid-in-a-candy-store combination of eight favorites all in one bite!  It's a fun and colorful treat perfect for any Halloween party or autumn get-together.  (Of course you can make this for ANY season ~ just switch up the candy/colors to match!)

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Halloween Candy Bark Recipe (Serves 12-15)

Ingredients:

  • 16 ounces high quality semisweet chocolate chopped (or use chips)
  • 6 ounces Butterfinger candy bars, cut into irregular 1-inch pieces
  • 3 1.4-ounce Heath or Skor toffee candy bars, cut into irregular 3/4-inch pieces
  • 8 0.55-ounce peanut butter cups, each cut into 8 wedges
  • 1/4 cup honey-roasted peanuts
  • 3 ounces high-quality white chocolate, chopped (or use chips)
  • Reese's Pieces and yellow and orange peanut M&M's

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Method:

  1. Line baking sheet with foil. Place a heat-proof bowl over a heavy, medium saucepan filled with lightly boiling water over a medium-low heat. Add semisweet chocolate chips and stir constantly with a wooden spoon until melted and warm to touch (NOT hot to touch which would result in grainy chocolate).
  2. Pour chocolate onto foil; spread to 1/4-inch thickness (about 12×10-inch rectangle). Sprinkle with Butterfinger candy, toffee, peanut butter cups, and nuts, making sure all pieces touch melted chocolate to adhere.
  3. Put white chocolate in a bowl over a heavy, small saucepan of lightly boiling water. Using a wooden spoon, stir constantly over very low heat until chocolate is melted and warm (not hot) to touch. Remove from heat. Dip spoon into chocolate; wave from side to side over bark, creating zigzag lines. Scatter Reese's Pieces and M&M's over, making sure candy touches melted chocolate.
  4. Chill bark until firm, 30 minutes. Slide foil with candy onto work surface; peel off foil. Cut bark into irregular pieces. Enjoy!

Recipe adapted from Bon Appetit ~ Tested & Approved!

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A Perfectly Irresistible Halloween Treat!

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Vanishing Blueberry Ginger White Chocolate Cookies


This is one of those recipes I've made so many times I've got it memorized by heart!  They're ALWAYS a huge hit! 

(Even the time during a power outage when I accidentally used corn starch instead of baking soda & they baked up into little rocks!  My guests were walking away with napkins full of them saying things like, "Oh no, I LOVE really crunchy cookies…" I just thought to myself – thank goodness!)  

In all seriousness though, Dried Blueberry Ginger White Chocolate Chunk Cookies are easy-peasy to make and take no time at all.  However, consider yourself warned; you'll forever be receiving requests for these after you've made them just once!


Recipe for Blueberry Ginger White Chocolate Cookies

 (Makes 2 Dozen)

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup wheat germ
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1 large egg
  • 3/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
  • 1/3 cup canola oil
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup thick, old fashioned oats (NOT instant!)
  • 2 ounces best quality white chocolate, chopped (I like Green & Black's)
  • 1/3 cup dried blueberries (Not the tiny wild kind, they need to be the larger traditional size for the right mouth feel- I buy mine from www.Oh Nuts.com)
  • 1/4 cup Crystalized Ginger, evenly chopped (I buy the kind that comes in 1/2" cubes & quarter the cubes into aproximately 1/4" cubed pieces)

Method:

  1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
  2. Whisk the flour, wheat germ, baking soda, salt and ground ginger together in a medium bowl.  
  3. Whisk egg, brown sugar, oil and vanilla in a larger bowl.  
  4. Gently add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients using a spatula stirring until combined.  
  5. Add oats, chocolate, blueberries and crystallized ginger; stirring just till combined. 
  6. Arrange dough in rounded tablespoonfuls onto 2 ungreased cookie sheets (12 balls per sheet).  
  7. Bake until puffed and golden around the edges, approximately 8 (softer cookies) to 10 (crispier cookies) minutes.
  8. I'd tell you to allow them to cool for a couple minutes on the cookie sheets then transfer to wire racks to cool completely…but by this point everyone will have convened to the kitchen and be eating them HOT! Right out of the oven!

Adapted from recipe created by Anna Ginsberg

How many hours did your cookies last?  Do share!

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Vanishing Blueberry Ginger White Chocolate Cookies ~ this batch of FOUR DOZEN was gone in a weekend!